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DPS recommends autopsy
The Department of Public Safety has recommended to the Office of the Attorney General to ask for an autopsy on the remains of a 37-year-old man whose body was found on the ground outside his home on Mt. Tapochau on Capital Hill last Friday afternoon.
A Saipan Tribune source said that DPS detectives had recommended an autopsy and that it will be the OAG that will decide whether or not there is a need for Guam chief medical examiner Dr. Aurelio Espinola to come and do an autopsy on the remains of Allan James Boyer Dela Cruz.
When asked yesterday about DPS’ recommendation, chief prosecutor Michele Harris said the case “is still under review.” She did not elaborate.
Dela Cruz’s body had been taken to the Commonwealth Health Center’s morgue for further investigative and preservative purposes, according to a statement from Lt. Jason Tarkong, the acting DPS spokesman.
In the statement, Tarkong said that police responded on Friday at 2:14pm to a report about a dead person at a house on Mt. Tapochau.
Police met at the scene witnesses who found Dela Cruz’s body.
Investigators said the victim was found lying on the ground outside the residence and the body was already in the late stages of decomposition.
Witnesses reportedly attempted the past few days to contact Dela Cruz, but he did not reply. The witnesses then decided to check on him at his residence and discovered the body.
A source said police investigators believe that Dela Cruz was possibly already dead a week before his body was found.
Dela Cruz was staying alone in the house as his parents are in the U.S. mainland. He worked as an analyst at the Commonwealth Casino Commission, Saipan Tribune learned.
